Why is it mandatory to embed subtitles in container?

[PMI]

So, the only impossible thing with DLNA and this TV is to read SRT subtitles with AVI files...

It is probably possible.

From what you found, it looks like your set has the same file support (at least for DLNA) as the other 2011 Viera models sold in Europe. Voodoo tested the Euro version pretty extensively, and it seems odd that your model would have the same features EXCEPT no playing .srt subs with AVI files... that just seems very unlikely. You could try sending him a message, he does not seem to be reading the forum much at this time.

Unfortunately, I can't give you specific help on that, because the US models are missing the function to turn on subtitles in the sub menu, along with AVI/DivX support and DTS...

Strange indeed : I've tested in every way but SRT files don't seem to be recognized along with AVI files. I'll try and contact Voodoo, or izy007 who happens to have almost the same model and who doesn't seem to have problems with it

[PMI]

I assume you mean that the AVI file does play fine, but subtitles do not show up when you try to turn them on from the menu (?)

The next step may be to turn on detailed logging (see viewtopic.php?f=5&t=7 ), then check the log file to see if srt subtitles are being delivered to your set. (or, just post part of the log file so one of the experts can look at it)

Yes, you've understood correctly...

Thanks, I've enabled debug mode and try several movies with SRT file.
I think this is the extractt for one of them :

  Code:

2012-04-03 22:11:38,331 DEBUG [GenreDAOImpl] Reading a Genre (id = 60)
2012-04-03 22:11:38,331 DEBUG [MediaItemDAOImpl] Reading a MediaItem (id = 20177)
2012-04-03 22:11:38,332 DEBUG [MediaItemDAOImpl] Getting file of media item 20177
2012-04-03 22:11:38,332 DEBUG [SubtitlesService] Found subtitle file: D:\Vidéos\DivX\Freedomland.srt
2012-04-03 22:11:38,332 DEBUG [VideoDAOImpl] Reading a Video (id = 20177)
2012-04-03 22:11:38,332 DEBUG [VideoDeliveryEngine] Retrieving resource information for item 20177 and profile Generic DLNA profile
2012-04-03 22:11:38,333 DEBUG [CoverImageDAOImpl] Reading a CoverImage (id = 29123)
[...]
2012-04-03 22:11:41,993 DEBUG [WebServer] Incoming connection from /192.168.1.2:44116
2012-04-03 22:11:41,994 DEBUG [ResourceTransportRequestHandler] GET /resource/20177/MEDIA_ITEM/AVI*0 HTTP/1.1, headers = [Host: 192.168.1.1:8895,Range: bytes=0-,Connection: keep-alive]]
2012-04-03 22:11:41,994 DEBUG [RendererDAOImpl] Reading a Renderer with ip address 192.168.1.2
2012-04-03 22:11:41,995 DEBUG [ResourceTransportRequestHandler] Resource request accepted. Using client 'IPAddress=/192.168.1.2, Profile=Generic DLNA profile'
2012-04-03 22:11:41,995 DEBUG [ResourceTransportRequestHandler] Request for resource 20177 and type 'MEDIA_ITEM' received
2012-04-03 22:11:41,996 DEBUG [MediaResourceRetrievalStrategy] Getting information about media item 20177 (local)
2012-04-03 22:11:41,996 DEBUG [MediaItemDAOImpl] Reading a MediaItem (id = 20177)
2012-04-03 22:11:41,996 DEBUG [VideoDAOImpl] Reading a Video (id = 20177)
2012-04-03 22:11:41,997 DEBUG [VideoDeliveryEngine] Delivering item '20177' for client 'IPAddress=/192.168.1.2, Profile=Generic DLNA profile'
2012-04-03 22:11:41,998 DEBUG [VideoDeliveryEngine] Delivering file 'Freedomland.avi' in native format
2012-04-03 22:11:41,998 DEBUG [MediaItemDAOImpl] Getting file of media item 20177
2012-04-03 22:11:41,999 DEBUG [MediaItemDAOImpl] Marking MediaItem (id = 20177) as read
2012-04-03 22:11:42,033 DEBUG [LocalContentCacheDecorator] Cleared cache (local_resetafterplay)
2012-04-03 22:11:42,034 DEBUG [ResourceTransportRequestHandler] Creating stream entity with length: 732329984
2012-04-03 22:11:42,034 DEBUG [ResourceTransportRequestHandler] Sending file back
2012-04-03 22:11:42,034 DEBUG [ResourceTransportRequestHandler] HTTP/1.1 206 Partial Content, headers = [[Content-Type: video/x-msvideo,Content-Range: bytes 0-732329983/732329984,Content-Length: 732329984,Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2012 20:11:42 GMT,Server: Windows 7, UPnP/1.0 DLNADOC/1.50, Serviio/0.6.2,Cache-control: no-cache,transferMode.dlna.org: Streaming]]
2012-04-03 22:11:42,065 DEBUG [WebServer] Incoming connection from /192.168.1.2:65282
2012-04-03 22:11:42,065 DEBUG [ResourceTransportRequestHandler] GET /resource/20177/MEDIA_ITEM/AVI*0 HTTP/1.1, headers = [Host: 192.168.1.1:8895,Range: bytes=0-,Connection: keep-alive]]
2012-04-03 22:11:42,066 DEBUG [RendererDAOImpl] Reading a Renderer with ip address 192.168.1.2
2012-04-03 22:11:42,066 DEBUG [ResourceTransportRequestHandler] Resource request accepted. Using client 'IPAddress=/192.168.1.2, Profile=Generic DLNA profile'
2012-04-03 22:11:42,066 DEBUG [ResourceTransportRequestHandler] Request for resource 20177 and type 'MEDIA_ITEM' received
2012-04-03 22:11:42,067 DEBUG [MediaResourceRetrievalStrategy] Getting information about media item 20177 (local)
2012-04-03 22:11:42,067 DEBUG [MediaItemDAOImpl] Reading a MediaItem (id = 20177)
2012-04-03 22:11:42,068 DEBUG [VideoDAOImpl] Reading a Video (id = 20177)
2012-04-03 22:11:42,070 DEBUG [VideoDeliveryEngine] Delivering item '20177' for client 'IPAddress=/192.168.1.2, Profile=Generic DLNA profile'
2012-04-03 22:11:42,070 DEBUG [VideoDeliveryEngine] Delivering file 'Freedomland.avi' in native format
2012-04-03 22:11:42,070 DEBUG [MediaItemDAOImpl] Getting file of media item 20177
2012-04-03 22:11:42,071 DEBUG [MediaItemDAOImpl] Marking MediaItem (id = 20177) as read
2012-04-03 22:11:42,074 DEBUG [LocalContentCacheDecorator] Cleared cache (local_resetafterplay)
2012-04-03 22:11:42,075 DEBUG [ResourceTransportRequestHandler] Creating stream entity with length: 732329984
2012-04-03 22:11:42,075 DEBUG [ResourceTransportRequestHandler] Sending file back
2012-04-03 22:11:42,075 DEBUG [ResourceTransportRequestHandler] HTTP/1.1 206 Partial Content, headers = [[Content-Type: video/x-msvideo,Content-Range: bytes 0-732329983/732329984,Content-Length: 732329984,Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2012 20:11:42 GMT,Server: Windows 7, UPnP/1.0 DLNADOC/1.50, Serviio/0.6.2,Cache-control: no-cache,transferMode.dlna.org: Streaming]]
2012-04-03 22:11:42,092 DEBUG [WebServer] I/O error: Connection reset by peer: socket write error
2012-04-03 22:11:42,099 DEBUG [WebServer] Incoming connection from /192.168.1.2:43393
2012-04-03 22:11:42,100 DEBUG [ResourceTransportRequestHandler] GET /resource/20177/MEDIA_ITEM/AVI*0 HTTP/1.1, headers = [Host: 192.168.1.1:8895,Range: bytes=0-,Connection: keep-alive]]
2012-04-03 22:11:42,100 DEBUG [RendererDAOImpl] Reading a Renderer with ip address 192.168.1.2
2012-04-03 22:11:42,100 DEBUG [ResourceTransportRequestHandler] Resource request accepted. Using client 'IPAddress=/192.168.1.2, Profile=Generic DLNA profile'
2012-04-03 22:11:42,100 DEBUG [ResourceTransportRequestHandler] Request for resource 20177 and type 'MEDIA_ITEM' received
2012-04-03 22:11:42,100 DEBUG [MediaResourceRetrievalStrategy] Getting information about media item 20177 (local)
2012-04-03 22:11:42,100 DEBUG [MediaItemDAOImpl] Reading a MediaItem (id = 20177)
2012-04-03 22:11:42,101 DEBUG [VideoDAOImpl] Reading a Video (id = 20177)
2012-04-03 22:11:42,101 DEBUG [VideoDeliveryEngine] Delivering item '20177' for client 'IPAddress=/192.168.1.2, Profile=Generic DLNA profile'
2012-04-03 22:11:42,101 DEBUG [VideoDeliveryEngine] Delivering file 'Freedomland.avi' in native format
2012-04-03 22:11:42,101 DEBUG [MediaItemDAOImpl] Getting file of media item 20177
2012-04-03 22:11:42,101 DEBUG [MediaItemDAOImpl] Marking MediaItem (id = 20177) as read
2012-04-03 22:11:42,103 DEBUG [LocalContentCacheDecorator] Cleared cache (local_resetafterplay)
2012-04-03 22:11:42,103 DEBUG [ResourceTransportRequestHandler] Creating stream entity with length: 732329984
2012-04-03 22:11:42,103 DEBUG [ResourceTransportRequestHandler] Sending file back
2012-04-03 22:11:42,103 DEBUG [ResourceTransportRequestHandler] HTTP/1.1 206 Partial Content, headers = [[Content-Type: video/x-msvideo,Content-Range: bytes 0-732329983/732329984,Content-Length: 732329984,Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2012 20:11:42 GMT,Server: Windows 7, UPnP/1.0 DLNADOC/1.50, Serviio/0.6.2,Cache-control: no-cache,transferMode.dlna.org: Streaming]]
2012-04-03 22:11:42,152 DEBUG [WebServer] Incoming connection from /192.168.1.2:41869
2012-04-03 22:11:42,153 DEBUG [ResourceTransportRequestHandler] GET /resource/20177/MEDIA_ITEM/AVI*0 HTTP/1.1, headers = [Host: 192.168.1.1:8895,Range: bytes=725206314-,Connection: keep-alive]]
2012-04-03 22:11:42,153 DEBUG [RendererDAOImpl] Reading a Renderer with ip address 192.168.1.2
2012-04-03 22:11:42,153 DEBUG [ResourceTransportRequestHandler] Resource request accepted. Using client 'IPAddress=/192.168.1.2, Profile=Generic DLNA profile'
2012-04-03 22:11:42,154 DEBUG [ResourceTransportRequestHandler] Request for resource 20177 and type 'MEDIA_ITEM' received
2012-04-03 22:11:42,154 DEBUG [MediaResourceRetrievalStrategy] Getting information about media item 20177 (local)
2012-04-03 22:11:42,154 DEBUG [MediaItemDAOImpl] Reading a MediaItem (id = 20177)
2012-04-03 22:11:42,154 DEBUG [VideoDAOImpl] Reading a Video (id = 20177)
2012-04-03 22:11:42,154 DEBUG [VideoDeliveryEngine] Delivering item '20177' for client 'IPAddress=/192.168.1.2, Profile=Generic DLNA profile'
2012-04-03 22:11:42,154 DEBUG [VideoDeliveryEngine] Delivering file 'Freedomland.avi' in native format
2012-04-03 22:11:42,154 DEBUG [MediaItemDAOImpl] Getting file of media item 20177
2012-04-03 22:11:42,155 DEBUG [ResourceTransportRequestHandler] Creating stream entity with length: 7123670
2012-04-03 22:11:42,155 DEBUG [ResourceTransportRequestHandler] Sending file back
2012-04-03 22:11:42,155 DEBUG [ResourceTransportRequestHandler] HTTP/1.1 206 Partial Content, headers = [[Content-Type: video/x-msvideo,Content-Range: bytes 725206314-732329983/732329984,Content-Length: 7123670,Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2012 20:11:42 GMT,Server: Windows 7, UPnP/1.0 DLNADOC/1.50, Serviio/0.6.2,Cache-control: no-cache,transferMode.dlna.org: Streaming]]
2012-04-03 22:11:44,196 DEBUG [WebServer] I/O error: Connection reset by peer: socket write error
2012-04-03 22:11:47,072 DEBUG [WebServer] Incoming connection from /192.168.1.2:53057
2012-04-03 22:11:47,074 DEBUG [ResourceTransportRequestHandler] GET /resource/20177/MEDIA_ITEM/AVI*0 HTTP/1.1, headers = [Host: 192.168.1.1:8895,Range: bytes=10248-,Connection: keep-alive]]
2012-04-03 22:11:47,075 DEBUG [RendererDAOImpl] Reading a Renderer with ip address 192.168.1.2
2012-04-03 22:11:47,075 DEBUG [ResourceTransportRequestHandler] Resource request accepted. Using client 'IPAddress=/192.168.1.2, Profile=Generic DLNA profile'
2012-04-03 22:11:47,076 DEBUG [ResourceTransportRequestHandler] Request for resource 20177 and type 'MEDIA_ITEM' received
2012-04-03 22:11:47,076 DEBUG [MediaResourceRetrievalStrategy] Getting information about media item 20177 (local)
2012-04-03 22:11:47,076 DEBUG [MediaItemDAOImpl] Reading a MediaItem (id = 20177)
2012-04-03 22:11:47,077 DEBUG [VideoDAOImpl] Reading a Video (id = 20177)
2012-04-03 22:11:47,078 DEBUG [VideoDeliveryEngine] Delivering item '20177' for client 'IPAddress=/192.168.1.2, Profile=Generic DLNA profile'
2012-04-03 22:11:47,078 DEBUG [VideoDeliveryEngine] Delivering file 'Freedomland.avi' in native format
2012-04-03 22:11:47,078 DEBUG [MediaItemDAOImpl] Getting file of media item 20177
2012-04-03 22:11:47,079 DEBUG [ResourceTransportRequestHandler] Creating stream entity with length: 732319736
2012-04-03 22:11:47,079 DEBUG [ResourceTransportRequestHandler] Sending file back
2012-04-03 22:11:47,079 DEBUG [ResourceTransportRequestHandler] HTTP/1.1 206 Partial Content, headers = [[Content-Type: video/x-msvideo,Content-Range: bytes 10248-732329983/732329984,Content-Length: 732319736,Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2012 20:11:47 GMT,Server: Windows 7, UPnP/1.0 DLNADOC/1.50, Serviio/0.6.2,Cache-control: no-cache,transferMode.dlna.org: Streaming]]
2012-04-03 22:11:50,169 DEBUG [DiscoveryAdvertisementNotifier] Multicasting SSDP alive using interface eth3 (NVIDIA nForce 10/100 Mbps Ethernet ) and address 192.168.1.1, timeout = 0
2012-04-03 22:11:50,170 DEBUG [DiscoveryAdvertisementNotifier] Sending 6 'alive' messages describing device 232e919c-d3d9-3eeb-ac51-8e4209d980af
2012-04-03 22:11:50,891 DEBUG [WebServer] Incoming connection from /192.168.1.2:16983
2012-04-03 22:11:50,892 DEBUG [DeviceDescriptionRequestHandler] DeviceDescription request received for device 232e919c-d3d9-3eeb-ac51-8e4209d980af from 192.168.1.2 (headers = [User-Agent: Panasonic MIL DLNA CP UPnP/1.0 DLNADOC/1.50,Host: 192.168.1.1:8895,X-PANASONIC-Registration: VklFUkEgVlQzMCBTZXJpZXMAAAAAAAAAAAA=,X-PANASONIC-DMP-Profile: MPEG_PS_PAL JPEG_SM PV_DIVX_DIV3 PV_DIVX_DIV4 PV_DIVX_DIVX PV_DIVX_DX50 PV_DRM_DIVX_DIV3 PV_DRM_DIVX_DIV4 PV_DRM_DIVX_DIVX PV_DRM_DIVX_DX50])
2012-04-03 22:11:50,892 DEBUG [RendererDAOImpl] Reading a Renderer with ip address 192.168.1.2
2012-04-03 22:11:50,893 DEBUG [RendererManager] Looking for a renderer profile for Http headers: [User-Agent: Panasonic MIL DLNA CP UPnP/1.0 DLNADOC/1.50,Host: 192.168.1.1:8895,X-PANASONIC-Registration: VklFUkEgVlQzMCBTZXJpZXMAAAAAAAAAAAA=,X-PANASONIC-DMP-Profile: MPEG_PS_PAL JPEG_SM PV_DIVX_DIV3 PV_DIVX_DIV4 PV_DIVX_DIVX PV_DIVX_DX50 PV_DRM_DIVX_DIV3 PV_DRM_DIVX_DIV4 PV_DRM_DIVX_DIVX PV_DRM_DIVX_DX50]
2012-04-03 22:11:50,894 DEBUG [RendererDAOImpl] Reading a Renderer with ip address 192.168.1.2
2012-04-03 22:11:50,898 DEBUG [DeviceDescriptionRequestHandler] Sending DeviceDescription XML back using profile 'Generic DLNA profile'
2012-04-03 22:11:51,970 DEBUG [DiscoveryAdvertisementNotifier] Will advertise again in 00:01:07


Hope you'll find something, because I don't

[PMI]

It looks like you are using the generic DLNA profile (?) That may be part of the problem. I am not even certain the generic profile supports srt files. Cerberus made two new profiles for Viera models sold 2011 and later.

You should probably add one of the new Viera profiles to the Profiles.xml file before doing any more testing. The new profiles have not been tested by anyone with your Viera model (at least nobody who posted results). However, based on what you posted so far, I think you should use the Viera Profile for sets WITH AVI support, because I believe that should work for any recent Viera set sold in Europe. This is the profile voodooo tested and worked for him.

Actually I tried the one found there for VT30 : viewtopic.php?f=13&t=5119&p=36038&hilit=VT30#p36038
This is what was used when doing the test yesterday :

  Code:

 
   <Profile id="24" name="Panasonic Viera With AVI Support" extendsProfileId="1">
            <ContentDirectoryMessageBuilder>org.serviio.upnp.service.contentdirectory.PacketVideoDLNAMessageBuilder</ContentDirectoryMessageBuilder>
            <SubtitlesMimeType>text/srt</SubtitlesMimeType>
            <Transcoding>
          <!-- Transcode h264 videos with profile level > 4.1 to mpegts with ac3 audio -->
          <Video targetContainer="mpegts" targetVCodec="mpeg2video" targetACodec="ac3" maxVBitrate="20000">
             <Matches container="mp4" vCodec="h264" profile="high" levelGreaterThan="4.2" />
             <Matches container="mp4" vCodec="h264" profile="main" levelGreaterThan="4.2" />
             <Matches container="matroska" vCodec="h264" profile="high" levelGreaterThan="4.2" />
             <Matches container="matroska" vCodec="h264" profile="main" levelGreaterThan="4.2" />
          </Video>
               <!-- remux VORBIS/FLAC/LPCM in MKV/MP4 to AC3 -->
               <Video targetContainer="mpegts" targetACodec="ac3" >
                  <Matches container="matroska" vCodec="h264" aCodec="flac" />
                  <Matches container="matroska" vCodec="h264" aCodec="vorbis" />
                  <Matches container="matroska" vCodec="h264" aCodec="truehd" />
                  <Matches container="mp4" vCodec="h264" aCodec="lpcm"/>
                  <Matches container="mp4" vCodec="h264" aCodec="aac"/>
                  <Matches container="3gp" vCodec="h264" />
               </Video>
               <!-- Remux MPEG-TS with no transcoding -->
               <Video targetContainer="mpegts">
                  <Matches container="mp4" vCodec="h264" />
                  <Matches container="matroska" vCodec="mpeg2video"/>
               </Video>
               <!-- Remux WTV files to MPEG-PS with no transcoding-->
               <Video targetContainer="mpeg">
                  <Matches container="wtv" />
               </Video>
               <!-- unsupported codecs will be transcoded into mpeg-ts, mpeg2 video and ac3 audio -->
               <Video targetContainer="mpegts" targetVCodec="mpeg2video" targetACodec="ac3">           
                  <Matches container="avi" />
                  <Matches container="mp4" vCodec="mjpeg" />
                  <Matches container="mp4" vCodec="mpeg4" />
             <Matches container="mpeg" vCodec="mpeg1video" />
             <Matches container="matroska" vCodec="mpeg4" />
                  <Matches container="asf" />
                  <Matches container="flv" />
                  <Matches container="ogg" />
                  <Matches container="3gp" />
               </Video>
               <!-- unsupported audio will be transcoded into lpcm audio -->
               <Audio targetContainer="lpcm">
                  <Matches container="flac" />
                  <Matches container="ogg" />
                  <Matches container="asf" />
                  <Matches container="adts" />
               </Audio>
            </Transcoding>     
        </Profile>


[PMI]

Looking at the excerpt of the log file, I only see references to "Generic DLNA Profile". see highlite:

2012-04-03 22:11:41,997 DEBUG [VideoDeliveryEngine] Delivering item '20177' for client 'IPAddress=/192.168.1.2, Profile=Generic DLNA profile'
2012-04-03 22:11:41,998 DEBUG [VideoDeliveryEngine] Delivering file 'Freedomland.avi' in native format

Perhaps the Viera Profile was not selected at the time of the test (you have to do that manually in the Serviio Console, and then click the "Save" button). Mind you, this is just a guess, but the excerpt of the log file has no trace of any Viera profile...

Nice! It works

Sorry, you were right, the profile wasn't selected

It appears that I can use for my french VT30E the profile that Cerberus posted for E30, GT30 and UT30 : my TV has AVI support indeed
http://forum.serviio.org/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=5119&p=36038&hilit=VT30#p36038

Thanks a lot for you patience PMI

Hi all,
I'm trying to get subs with serviio on my TV Panasonic TX-P55VT30E. Unfortunately without success.
Results are:
a) avi with external .srt file: no
b) mp4 with external .srt file:no
c) mkv with external .srt file: no
d) mkv with muxed .srt file (muxing done with compression = none for all three streams: video, audio, subs): yes when selected on TV remote Option -> Subtitle: Subtitle1(und) (by default is selected Off and subs are not displayed)
I made above checking using both profiles "Panasonic Viera With AVI Support" and "Panasonic Viera Without AVI Support" available here: viewtopic.php?f=13&t=5119&hilit=VT30&start=60. Of course appropriate profile is selected in serviio console. Results are same.
Could you please advice what and where (serviio or TV set) should I set or change in order to get external subs displayed at least with mp4 and mkv ?
As I read this post there are TV sets supporting external subs, some no. How to check if my model is supporting external subs ?
Aha, one more important information: in all cases a)-d) PS3 Media Server is working on my TV set: subs are displayed, so this is really pity that it doesn't work with serviio.

Hi,
Finally I'm able to display .srt with avi files... The problem with displaying them was caused by wrong .srt files - they must be saved with ANSI encoding, so the problem is solved
Anyhow it's a pity that there is no way to configure subtitles with font, color, size, border, etc.
In PS3 Media Server you can do these configurations with subtitles but then mencoder is transcoding every format (avi, mp4, mkv) which utilize CPU heavily.